Tuesday, May 13

Urgh. Just got back from the dentist, where I had my second planing and scraping in a week. It's about as fun as it sounds. With all the grinding, whirring and gurgling of the various electro-mechanical tools and suction tubes in your mouth, it feels like being French-kissed by an evil robot from outer space shortly before it beheads you in front of your family and neighbors to make an example of you. Sort of.

Thursday, May 8

I caught "Iron Man" last night with some friends. It's a serviceable summer action movie, powered by Robert Downey Jr. He exceeds expectations portraying a war profiteer turned superhero.

Jeff Bridges plays the villain, a fellow war profiteer who stays that way at all costs. Even though Bridges has a shaved head and wears slick suits, his voice still betrays him as The Dude from "The Big Lebowski."

It's only a matter of time before someone grafts some "Lebowski" dialog on top of Bridges' scenes in "Iron Man," just as people have done with James Earl Jones and the "Star Wars" movies.